Chantelle Cameron definitely wants revenge.
The former women’s undisputed 140-pound champion from England took to social media on Friday to call for a third fight with Ireland’s Katie Taylor, who defeated her last month in their rematch at 3Arena in Dublin.
With the win, Taylor earned the rare distinction of being an undisputed champion in two divisions, lightweight and junior welterweight. Taylor evened the score with Cameron, who won the first match by majority decision in May.
Cameron’s team was irate about what they felt were egregious mishaps from the referee during the rematch, including a controversial moment in the opening round when Cameron appeared to knock Taylor to the canvas with a jab. But the referee ruled it a slip.
“Had my break from boxing to clear my head and recover from my first loss,” Cameron wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “@katie_t86 we both took each others 0, let’s get the trilogy on next . I agreed the first fight in less than 48 hours no excuses If you are anything like me you will not want to leave this at 1 -1.”
Eddie Hearn, the promoter of Taylor, has floated the possibility of staging a trilogy between Taylor and Cameron at Ireland’s fabled stadium Croke Park. When notified of Cameron’s enthusiasm, Hearn said he will eventually conduct conversations with her representatives.
“I hope so,” Hearn said of making a third fight between Taylor and Cameron in an interview with Boxing Social. “It’s great to hear her say that. Obviously she’s disappointed to lose. But when she reflects on it she will see two great fights and an opportunity to do a trilogy as well and that’s definitely the fight that we’d like to make and we’ll start talking to her and her team and see if it can make it happen.”
“She’s beaten Katie in Ireland before, she’ll believe she can do it again, why not?” Hearn continued. “You gotta get over the ‘oh, I felt it was a knockdown,’ or ‘she was holding,’ or ‘she was elbowing me’ —at the end of the day, it’s a fight, it’s over, let’s move on.”
Sean Nam is the author of Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing.